The constituency of giants. The first MP from here in 1952 was
ongress stalwart Sri Prakasam. Succeeding him in 1957 and 1962
was Lal Bahadur Shastri, and succeeding him in 1967 was LBS's
son Hari Krishna. Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna won it for the
Congress in 1971, and in 1977 Janeshwar Mishra defeated
Vishwanath Pratap Singh of the Congress. Singh won from here in
1980, and in 1984, superstar Amitabh Bachchan of the Congress
trounced Bahuguna of the Lok Dal. In 1989, Janeshwar Mishra of
the JD defeated Bahuguna now of the Congress. The momentum
was lost after that, in 1991 Saroj Dubey of the JD won the seat. In
1996 Murli Manohar Joshi won the seat for the BJP, defeating
Dubey by 103,000 votes. The BSP, which came third, took away
102,352 votes.